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The US had not sold weapons to China, although Russia did and still does. The major weapons sales by the US to Pakistan and the establishment of the supplier relationship were during the Cold War, with the specific aim of defeating the USSR in Afghanistan. Since the USSR and India were broadly aligned at the time, India cannot justly complain now of the results it suffered because she willingly chose the losing side.

With but a few exceptions, American weapons and military equipment are the best in the world for quality, durability, reliability, and capability. They also tend to be expensive and to require a degree of organizational coherence and mechanical training and talent that is not always available in the military organizations of other nations.

Here's a news flash about the F-35. It is in early production, pilot instructors are being trained in the Florida panhandle, the test regime is progressing, and the aircraft's problems are being ironed out. It will have a long and successful service life, including with the Royal Navy and other allies.

Meanwhile, the US is moving along with the research and development of autonomous, unmanned combat aircraft. They will likely begin to go into production around the time that the Russian-India fighter program starts rolling out its first examples of the prior generation of aerial combat technology.

Give my suggested Google search a try, sorting out what sources you regard as reliable and reasoning your way through. Who knows, but you may one day be in a position to join the ranks of India's governmental and military reformers.

You need to read up on history. You are very typical of an American strong opinion but pathetically misinformed.

US has been selling weapons to Pakistan LONG before Afghanistan war. US sold 100 F-86 sabers to Pakistan as early as 1957. You can't pin that one on India. In 1965 war India beat American weaponry used by Pakistan not with Russian but with British weaponry. Indian had close military ties with western bloc (UK and France) as much as Eastern block (USSR). India was non-aligned and US was haughtily riding her moral high horse of leading the free world. You picked the losing side. India won every single war against Pakistan. And emerged the economic winners in Asia. And we all saw how your alliance with Pakistan and China worked out. Now tell me who picked the wrong side.

Sorry but there is no news flash. F-35 development is still WAY behind schedule not to mention the costs are going to be enormous and its technological edge isnt going to be all that great by the time it comes out. It production time lines are FAR behind schedule. As for Royal Navy.... they got rid of their Harriers and now they don't have an aircraft carrier. They spent enormous money to turn their ski jump carrier to flat tops only to spent yet more money revert back to ski-jump to operate F-35Bs of lower capability. And currently they don't have any ACs. India even with her Gorshkov delays will soon field a 4 ACs navy. 2 of them being indigenously built.

While whatever the US herself uses may be the best in the world, what US is willing to sell to the world is definitely far from being the best. LM and Boeing couldn't even win the Indian MMRCA competition where it had a fair chance. US F-16s and F-18E crapped in the trials.

As for unmanned autonomous combat aircraft, those are wildly optimistic time frames. Forget going into production, we are yet to see even a prototype flying. And with the type of budget cuts we saw for F-22s and F-35s, very likely we wont even see a prototype flying until the next decade.

And thanks for the suggestion. I do Google searches everyday. Google is not a “source”. And you dont even know enough to tell me what sources are reliable, so lets just leave it there.